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MEMORIAL DAY. 



THE BOYS IN BLUE COMMEMORATE AGAIN THE DAY APPOINTED TO HONOR 
THE NATION'S DEAD. 

An unusually large attendance was present at the exercises on Me- 
morial Day. At 1:30 p. m. Robert Mitchell Post No. 170 formed on Broadway, 
and, led by the band, marched to the opera house to hear Capt. P. H. Coney, 
of Topeka, deliver the address. The opera house was filled with people 
who desired to hear him. His address was one of unusual merit, in fact 
the best we have ever heard on a similar occasion. 

Captain Cone3''s address paid high tribute to the valor and patriotism 
of the soldiers of the Civil War, and throughout was one of the best and 
most earnest addresses ever delivered in La Cygne. 

At the conclusion of his address the procession was formed on Broad- 
way, headed by the band, followed by thirty little girls bearing flowers for 
the decoration ceremonies, the Grand Army Post and citizens, and marched 
to our beautiful Oak I<awn cemetery where the fragrant flowers were laid 
reverently upon the graves of our country's defenders who are reposing 
there in an eternal slumher.— /Kansas Standard, of La Cygne, Kan., June 
S, 1901,. 



LARGE ATTENDANCE, 

Memorial services in l,a Cygne this year were in every way a success 
and the members of the Robert B. Mitchell Post deserve credit for the 
management of the occasion. 

At 1 o'clock p. m. the I,a Cygne band and about 200 citizens met 
Captain P. H. Coney at the train and escorted him to the opera house 
where a large crowd gathered to hear once more a tribute to loved ones 
who had carried our flag to victory. After the G. A. R. ofiBcial exercises 
music was furnished by both the choir and the band. Captain Coney was 
then introduced and for some time talked in an interesting manner of the 
days of war time. The procession then formed headed by our band and 
marched to the cemetery, which presented a most beautiful appearance. 
The grass had been carefully mowed and each lot had by loving hands 
been decorated with the choicest of flowers. For an hour the decorations 
were viewed by the large crowd. 

In the evening a genuine old-fashioned soldiers' camp fire was held at 
the opera house. Speeches were made by Laptain Coney, R. F. Thome, 
George Miller and Rev. Arnett. S. A. Dannerrecited "Barbara Frietschie." 
The ladies' quartet and the I,a Cygne orfhesi^a furnished splendid music. 
—La Cygne Journal, June S, 190/,. I.', 



*A/ojwi , ii ucd" 



ii^ttuinal Abbr^BS of patrirk % CHott^g. 



Afr. Chairman^ Comrades, Ladies and Citizejis: 

"God of the Universe, protect Columbia; 
Keep the stars and stripes secure; 
Though we drape our flag in mourning, 
Keep its mission ever piure. 
Round its folds let weeping freemen 
Pledge their vows of faith to-day — 
Men who battled for the Union 
And their brothers of the Grey. 

Toll the bells throughout the Nation, 
Let the people's sad oblation, 
On the mournful music roll. 
Let love's fairest, purest flowers. 
Wreathe this offering of ours. 
While the bells of freedom toll." 

Through all the vicissitudes of the tragic and 
memorable past, made glorious by the prevailing 
sons and daughters of freedom's and humanity's holy 
cause, we here reverently gather on this historic 
ground, made hallowed by the uncompromising de- 
votion of the resolute, fearless and aggressive van- 
guards of liberty, who gave their lives, their fortunes 
and all the promises of their vigorous youth to re- 
claim this once barren land to progressive freemen. 

uU|P l|nmp of tl|if 3xtt anii SJraup. 

lyittle that we may say, or do, can add to the glory 
and renown of their nobility and accomplishment, 

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The sacred duty to which we are patriotically bound, 
in loyal devotion to them and their revered memories, 
is the reconsecration of our most zealous and devo- 
tional efforts to the preservation and full fruition of 
the exalted purposes for which they sacrificed and 
fought to make this forever the home of the free and 
brave, with equal rights for all, according to the most 
progressive ideals of intelligent citizenship, bearing 
each other's burdens and sharing each other's joys, 
denying to none the same privileges in life's pursuit 
and comfort that we ask for ourselves, and in further- 
ance and preservation of the same to compel purity in 
all public affairs, with an untrammelled exercise of 
citizenship, restricted only to a conscientious ballot 
and an honest count and faithful return. 

©0 Wi^itli ti|ta 3Fair iCattb toaa l^itratrJi tn IBlaoJn ani 

For this benign purpose the Fathers of this grand 
Republic wrought, and we defenders fought, to which 
this fair land was dedicated in blood and suffering by 
its founders. 

"We must ne'er prove faithless 
To the gallant blood they shed; 
Our foes may be forgiven, 
But we shall ne'er forget our dead." 

SlljPtr ArljtPtipmrntH mm "^tmr lExniUh. 

The achievements of these heroic men and women, 
whose lives and labors we this day commemorate, were 
never excelled, and can only be comparatively equaled 
by a self-denial and corresponding sacrifice and hero- 
ism of the Fathers of our Republic, whose services 
and accomplishment for humanity, liberty and inde- 

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pendence should be considerately read and profoundly- 
retold as long as freedom has a champion and 
courageous independence commands the admiration 
of men and women and the approval of God. 

"In our proud and onward march 
We halt an hour for dress parade, 
Remembering that fair freedom's arch 
Springs from the base our fathers laid. 

' 'This great Republic had its birth 

That hour beneath the army's wing, 
Whose leader taught by native worth 
That man is grander than the King. 

' 'No aping after foreign ways 
Becomes a son of noble sire; 
Columbia wins the sweetest praise 
When clad in simple plain attire." 

Slypg Urnugljt a MirmU. 

The Fathers of this Republic gave to the world its 
most assuring lesson of the possibilities of heroic, in- 
dependent and intelligent manhood, when acting 
unitedly in brotherly unity for the divine right of 
liberty and independence, for man, against mammon 
and tyranny. 

They wrought a miracle in their time; they pro- 
claimed to the world in words of divine wisdom their 
grievances and their God-given natural rights, in that 
' ' Magna Charta ' ' of our liberties, the immortal 
"Declaration of Independence, 'y> made secure by the 
palladium of our Republic, our "Constitution." No 
person, whatever his station may be, is a capable 
citizen of this Republic who has not understandingly 
read and comprehended these two great documents, 
that are the bulwarks of our liberties, i 



A comprehensive knowledge of the fundamental 
principles of our government is essential to capable 
citizenship. This most paramount necessity in our 
citizenship has, in the modern rage for trade control 
and wealth-getting, caused a diversion of the trend of 
our National and State affairs, until great appre- 
hension is felt among some of the most conscientious 
and considerate patriots, as to the future security of 
the Republic, along the primitive lines of the popular 
safety ordained by the founders. 

Haltli drnutti for 3tnv of Sransfnrmattnn. 

It is to be regretfully confessed that there has 
been, and is, valid ground for this serious fear of 
transformation in our governmental conduct. 

Under the guise of humane intervention, benevo- 
lent assimilation and greed for commercial extension, 
we have been carried beyond the bounds of the strict 
text of a secure Republic, which should never aggress, 
except for human liberty and its preservation; we 
should never aggress for acquisition, without consent 
and amicable compensation, and that within the con- 
fines of the " Monroe Doctrine," and then only where 
the people and conditions are of assimilating charac- 
ter, that can and will readily take on the habiliments 
of American citizenship understandingly and in form. 

2Cprp Wat langtrnuB SImmtgmnta. 

At the close of the Civil War in 1866, our popula- 
tion was thirty-nine millions; to-day it is close to 
eighty millions. Our natural increase by birth in 
forty years would be about twenty millions, showing 
that our population has been increased during this 
period by over twenty million immigrants; one-half 



of these, or near ten millions, have been of an unassimi- 
lating and dangerous class ^ from the peons of Italy, 
the Russian Jew, the Huns, the Chinaman and 
Malays; they are mostly an undesirable class in their 
native countries, and were brought or sent here as 
minions of corporate greed, under contract or as 
exiles. They do not understand the principles and 
basis of a government like ours. They can only be 
taught citizenship by the most drastic measures of 
circumscription and control, repugnant to us Amer- 
icans, who prize our primitive autonomy. The Irish, 
the English, the Dutch, the French, the Hollanders 
and Scandinavians quickly assimilated and mingled 
with us, grasping and qualifying themselves as pat- 
riotic Americans, by studying, understanding and 
performing their dutiful functions as good citizens; 
but, this latter-day tide of the most vicious classes 
that are admitted as immigrants from the countries 
named, do not come for the advantages, comforts and 
blessings of our high standard of Christian civilization. 
They come for a riotous life of profit and gain. They 
resist control of or respect for all law, as thej^ resisted 
the oppression of the imperial powers in their native 
land. They regard all law and control as their enemy. 
It will take several generations to Americanize them, 
and then their inherited strain of Ishmaelitic charac- 
teristics will menacingly appear to harass and em- 
barrass us. We must vigilantly restrict this class of 
immigrants, and resolutely demand National laws to 
that end, or the future of our Republic will be danger- 
ously threatened, if not helplessly strangled and trans- 
formed. It is already so alarming that all true 
patriots are trembling for the safety of our Republic, 
from this purchasable and unintelligent mass of vipers 
that are being mercenarily naturalized and worked 

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into marketable citizens. As a battle-scarred veteran 
of my country, I devoutly appeal to all patriotic 
Americans to join in vigilantly demanding protection 
from the scurf of all Europe, and pray Almighty 
God to strengthen our statesmen to save us and our 
Nation from this danger that threatens our future 
glory and existence. 

It may seem inappropriate to make these comments 
on a memorial occasion like this, but it is not, for this 
is the hour and this is the place to memorize ourselves 
in commemorating the lives, sacrifice and services of 
our revered, patriotic and heroic dead, whose char- 
acters and achievements must be portrayed for a 
correct understanding of them and their principles, as 
well as our reason for the faith that is within us, and 
the serious purposes of our sacred devotion. To this 
proper end, retrospection and introspection are a 
necessity. 

Ciirrat Wav Hf nmagj? — lEnglanh (3m l^tVBiBtmt 

f 

Great is our homage, as Americans, for the Revolu- 
tionary Fathers and their compatriots. No less 
reverence should be given to the gallant and cour- 
ageous Fathers of the wars of 1812 and 1832, with 
England, our ancient and atrociously persistent enemy, 
conniving (while under peaceful treaty) for our dis- 
integration and destruction, with foes within and 
without our borders, who became truculently ob- 
sequeous when powerless to harm or entrap us. 

The English were more effectively whipped and 
driven from our shores by General Jackson and his 
heroic command, than they previously were by the 
Revolutionary Fathers, for England was never content 



with the surrender of the "Red Coats" to the heroic 
colonists, and she longed and sought for every oppor- 
tunity to successfully attack and conquer us, but she 
ignominiously failed in all her designs and efforts. 

Great is our veneration for the chivalrous heroes 
of the Mexican and Indian wars, each and all of whom 
performed a brave warrior's part, earning for them- 
selves glorj^, renown and reward. 

3ln$trwf JirntpJi OlonJiurt atth Arrnmpltatj m? nta of tlit 
^erait Mvtx of IBfil to IBfifi. 

Yet the 2,778,304 defenders of the unity and in- 
tegrity of this Nation from 1861 to 1866 rendered a 
greater service to humanity than all the previous wars 
or battles on this continent, or in fact of all the world. 
It may be said with logical force that were it not for 
the success of the colonial fathers and the men of 1812 
and 1846, that these matchless men of 1861 to 1866 
would not have had the chance to have demonstrated 
to the world their unprecedented valor, resistless en- 
durance of punishment, unconquerable courage for 
liberty, home and country. While this is true, the 
gigantic magnitude of the battles in the destruction of 
life and propert}^ and the results accomplished by 
their victory, as well to the vanquished as to the 
victor, yet, all the wars of all the times, aggregated in 
a compilation in their beneficial results, never has, nor 
never can, approach comparison with the service 
rendered and glorious benefits attained by the men of 
the War of the Rebellion. 

"But e'en here amid the markets 

There are things they dare not prize; 
Dollars hide their sordid faces 
When they meet anointed eyes. 



When the soldier saves the battle, 

Wraps the flag around his heart, 
W^ho shall desecrate his honor. 

With the value of the mart ? 
From his guns of bronze we hear a price, 

And come it as a cross. 
For the aim we gave was priceless — 

As unpriced would be the loss." 

For what did these citizens, vokmteer soldiers of 
the Union from 1861 to 1866, so successfully do battle, 
and what was the character and magnitude of their 
victories ? 

They unselfishly, without other consideration than 
principle, for the preservation of the unity and integ- 
rity of our Republic, as established by the Fathers, 
granting the completest liberty within the confines of 
safety, in possession of property and the equitable 
rights of all others, in which an injury to one v/as the 
concern of all and the voice of the majority was the 
voice of all, suffered, sacrificed and victoriously fought 
the greatest and grandest battles for liberty and 
humanity ever fought. 

There is not in prece'ding human historj^ such an 
evidence of devotion to country as that exemplified 
by the patriots of America, who, out of a military 
population of 5,625,872 in 1861, responded to the 
"call" of "Father Abraham" 2,778,304 men, who 
took their lives in their hands and went out to battle 
for conscience and country, showing that nearlj^ one- 
half of our male citizens between the ages of 15 and 
45 actual!}' entered the military service. These figures 
are intensified in their force when we find, by the 
report of the Provost-Marshal General, that but one- 
half of the military population — that is, men between 

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the ages of 18 and 45 — was available, the other half 
being exempt from physical defects or other causes. 

Thus it will be seen that there were actually mus- 
tered into the service from 1861 to 1865 a number of 
men equal to the whole number liable for military 
duty at the outbreak of the war. 

It dazes the keenest contemplation, the voluminous 
sacrifice and pain that these statistics portray. Grief 
follows admiration in the reflection of the affectionate 
ambitions annulled, hopes destroyed, the ties of fam- 
ily and kindred sundered, the homes shattered; of the 
fatiguing marches, distress and suffering in field and 
camp, the restless nights and days, unsheltered from 
the elements, storm, rain, sleet, frost and snow, or the/ 
scorching sun rays, and pestered with the increments 
of army life, vermin that infests and poisons; often 
with only the canopy of clouds for a covering and the 
sod for a bed, with the indescribable horrors of battle, 
distracting wounds, hospital misery, and agonizing 
death, endured by this vast army of 2,778,304 brave 
defenders of our country and our flag — all this was 
experienced on hundreds of American battlefields. >■ 

f nutl|ful Agp0 mxh Numbifr nf lEnltatmtnta from April 
13, IBfil. in Aprils. IBfiS. 

Seventy-five per cent of the enlistments were young 
men under 21 j^ears of age, nearly 50 per cent were 18 
years of age and under. It is a marvel when officially 
considered. The following is authentic: 

The records in the office of the Adjutant General 
in Washington show that in the War of the Rebellion 
the enlisted men consisted as follows: 

Those 10 years and under 25 

" 11 " " " 38 

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Those 12 years and under. 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
21 
22 
25 
44 



225 

300 

1,523 

104,987 

231,051 

844,891 

1,151,438 

2,159,798 

618,511 

46,626 

16,071 



Total men enlisted 2,778,304 

At the present time, upon the same basis, there are 
in the United States, subject to service, 10,343,152 
soldiers. 

The total amount paid to men during the Rebellion, 
including pensions paid since the war up to July 1, 
1900, is about $2,500,000,000. 

The other expenses of the war amounted to $5,- 
600,000,000. 

"The shadows of the comrades I loved in long ago. 
Are flitting in my visions, their faces well I know; 
And from the roar of battle I hear their voices rise, 
To mingle with our triumph and echo in the skies." 

Abraljam Sltnrnln anJi ttf^ iKattBao iBiU. 

( The ever memorable debate of the immortal Lincoln 
and Douglas, for the United States Senate, in Illinois, 
in 1858, brought out and crystalized the issues and 
made the "Kansas and Nebraska Bill" for admission 
to the Union the salient and sapient issue. Kansas 
was the storm breeder and precipitating battle ground 
of the great conflict, which divided the sheep and the 
goats from the slavery wolves of the South, who pre- 
ferred "Cotton King" and "slavery," with a divided 
Union, a disrupted Nation, to restricted slavery and a 

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"United Union," one and inseparable, as a Nation 
forever. 

From the brambles of obscurity the immortal Lin- 
coln came to us, and his character and life was as near 
divine as man could be ; he had no predecessor and 
may never have a successor. He was simple, plain, 
without pretention or frills. His presence was so quiet, 
so sublime and so fragrant that all beings and nature 
in his circle was inspired into harmonious hope and 
confidence in his wisdom and righteousness of purpose. 
Where he was partly understood, he was confided in 
absolutely, and never betrayed. He adored the 
common people; he loved humanity and strove for 
them as no ordinary man before ever so successfully 
did. "He was less than a God, but greater than man." 
He died beloved of all people, and yet he was never 
fully understood, and is not yet. He was and is the 
"wonder of the ages," but the nobility of his divine 
character becomes more resplendent as time passes and 
all his attributes are discussed and understood. The 
South lost in his red handed and brutal assassination, 
by the crazy fiend who »sent him to Heaven by his 
wild shot, the best and truest friend they had, or 
could have found. ) 

"Rich was his brave and honest worth, 
And rich was his heart's warm core; 
Rich was the love of his fireside hearth, 
And rich was his honor lore." 

"By each remembrance of the past. 

Our prayers for him are given; 
The love of comrades true and fast, 
"While pulse throb and life shall last. 

And trusting all to Heaven." 



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Ar? U^ 3Fattl|ful ta i^im mxh Wnv ©ruat? 



Ke gave to us an example and heritage, second 
only to the humble and holy Nazarene, who gave His 
life for our salvation. Are we now faithful and dutiful 
to his iniploration and admonition ? Are we carrying 
into effect his exemplary precepts ? Are we exploiting 
the lessons of his wisdom so the same may be under- 
stood and pursued by our successors in unselfish purity 
and prudential conduct of our public affairs ? L,et us 
introspect ourselves with a clinical analysis of our 
public action, and determine within our own conscience 
whether our acts are in pursuit of the wisest and 
safest methods of public weal, so fervently and trench- 
antly addressed to us by Washington, Jefferson, Jack- 
son and Lincoln in their last letters and addresses. 
Their extensively published utterances should be 
seriously consulted, profoundly studied and ardently 
adhered to, for they gave them to us after sage 
experience in the most crucial tests of unselfish and 
solemn patriotic statesmanship. ) 

ligrpsaian of (^tmtxmntnttii Affairs — #afipguar& 
Puhlir Wtni by lEtrntal Higtlaurr. 

The trend of our National and State affairs is 
dangerously digressing from the stern lines of safety. 
Sordid greed and avarice are speedily undermining the 
foundations of our Republic, and commercialism is 
taking the place of unselfish patriotism. The rage 
for the "almighty dollar" is displacing purity in 
public affairs, and profit-making has become the 
crowning glory of modern achievements, regardless 
of governmental safety and public weal. We are 
progressively developing our internal resources at 
measureless speed, v/hich greatly gratifies our material 

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and National pride, but if this is being done at the 
expense of popular sovereignty and the primitive 
simplicity of constitutional government, in strict line 
with the immortal Declaration, we should halt, reflect 
and revise conditions to conform strictly and consist- 
ently with our well defined lines of popular govern- 
ment as ordained and decreed by the founders and 
defenders of our Republic. We should safeguard 
against corrupt control through the manipulations of 
corporate combines or the machinations of concen- 
trated wealth, that seeks to coerce and dictate govern- 
mental direction to the spoliation of the natural and 
fundamental rights of the masses, and the humiliation 
of our citizenship in depriving them of equal oppor- 
tunities in the pursuit of life's comforts and happiness. 

The rights of the masses are paramount to those of 
all privileged classes; no men, or set of men, can 
rightfull}^ claim a natural or just right to control and 
manipulate, through public functions, the necessities 
and welfare of the masses to their degradation and 
impoverishment. lyincoln wiselj^ said, "God must 
love the common people or he would not have made 
so many of them." We should encourage a profitable 
and successful development of all our resources and 
natural advantages, within the boundaries of public 
weal, but always subject to lawful control by the 
people, who are the primitive source of all power in 
our beloved land of liberty and prosperity. 

The people and good citizenship are above and 
beyond all parties or factions. This fact should never 
be lost sight of by an}^ patriotic and loyal American. 

What is most needed in our present citizenship is a 
rehabilitation of the simple and rigidly conscientious 
ways of the Puritan, cavalier and patriotic fathers 



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and mothers, who wrought and transmitted to our 
hands this glorious Republic; we need 

More of practice, less profession ; 
More of firmness, less concession ; 
More of freedom, less oppression, 

In the Church and in the State. 
More of life and less of fashion ; 
More of love and less passion, 

That will make us good and great. 

fail lExtntHinn nf aiibrrty tn AU »|n ^rrk it, 3iitl|in 

We should hail with glorious delight the extension 
of the blessings of liberty and advanced civilization as 
enjoyed by us, to all the people, of all the universe, 
who seek it, and are willing and capable of enjoying 
and protecting it, but we should not go beyond our 
own territorial boundary to compel any resisting 
people to adopt it. Is it not transcending the funda- 
mental precepts and constitutional authority of the 
government, to acquire control and possession of alien 
territory and people, by conquest, under any guise of 
friendly intervention, or assumption, without the vol- 
untary consent of that people ? Is it not a disregard 
of our governmental safety, and a transgression of the 
tenets of our Republic as maintained by the Fathers 
and builders — embodied in the public addresses of 
Washington, Jefferson and lyincoln and their compeers 
— to maintain by armed force a different form of 
government, under our glorious flag and Constitution, 
in a conquested possession, from that we have here at 
home? It seems to me so; and if carried on to its 
complete sequence, what may become of our vaunted 
liberties and self-control ? If our ' ' Bill of Rights' ' 
and Constitution may be twisted, strained, juggled 

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and perverted to do this with foreign territory, what 
is there to hinder a less flagrant, but equally as 
insidious, perversion of authority and transformation 
of government form here ? Are we not justifying it 
here by our toleration of it abroad? Surely it is high 
time that we were seriously considering this question 
in the light of the ardent admonition contained in 
"Washington's Farewell Address," and in the official 
papers of Jefferson, who so impressively warned us 
against such insidious dangers that were more liable 
to wreck our Republic than open rebellion. 

"Perish all intrigue to Freedom's cause, 
Of Sultan's King or Minstrel tool ; 
True liberty must make men's laws 
And virtue, right and reason rule." 

Anaih ^nmhlaus nnh 'Snsihlans lEmbarraHammtH at 
^fltttif nnb Abroad. 

The hundreds of millions yearly expended to con- 
trol by forced persuasion the yellow Malay combatants 
of the archipelagoes, who are neither congenial nor 
affiliable by any natural or affinity ties, and are as 
unassimilative with pure Americans as the Mongolian, 
is a waste of energy and money for all beneficial pur- 
poses, save a small commercial advantage that could 
be more cheaply, honorably and humanely obtained 
through cordial and reciprocal treaty compact and 
their assured protected independence and self-govern- 
ment. 

If the vast amounts that have been and are now 
being squandered upon their military control were to 
be expended for the reclamation and development of 
our limitless domestic resources of land and water, 
there would soon be prosperous provision made for the 
profitable and happy homesteading of from twenty to 

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fifty millions of our people. This would be in con- 
formity with the "Magna Cliarta" of our liberties, 
and enable us to point with consistent pride to the 
glorious advantages of our civilization and govern- 
ment, thereby avoiding invidious embarrassments at 
home or abroad, and escaping all foreign entangle- 
ments or broils; continuing our National policy in 
harmonious line with our exalted precedent of law 
and security, adhered to from the beginning; thereby, 
commanding the friendl}'- respect of all foreign powers 
and allaying all apprehensive discontent at home, with 
renewed tranquillity in the scrupulous adherence to the 
spirit and letter of the basic ideals of our cherished 
Republic in all its adhesive grandeur, without devia- 
tion or extra vagation. It is consonant with appro- 
priate memoriam exercises for our heroic patriots, 
who so chivalrously and peerlessly periled their all 
for the construction and maintenance of our liberties, 
that we should review any apparent desecration of 
their faithful life's work and advice by the transgres- 
sion of their teachings and warnings, that are the 
gospel of our rights as citizens and the true text and 
buhvark, of the permanency of their and our National 
integrity; therefore, it is meet that these inquisitive 
comparisons should be made, that we may in reverent 
commemoration of them, and in fidelity to ourselves 
and our victorious internecine contention, act in 
accordance with right and safety, along the clearly 
defined lines of patriotic comprehension. 

The preservation of a Republic, and the salvation 
of a people's rights in their peaceful possessions, of 
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, lies in the 
pure, untrammelled exercise of our citizenship, and 
doing unto, and exacting of, all others, truth, honesty 



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and honor in their individual and public conduct. 
For ' ' there is more in the salvation of a Republic 
than the mere absence of a King or limperor." 

Our freedom is a trust from God, 

To true men's guardianship consigned ; 

Who bow to brute oppression's rod 
Are slaves and traitors to their kind. 

IQtt No Amrriran 3^f ar to ©prnlg Ba Sigtjt. 

lyCt there ever be in upright Americans no fear to 
do right, regardless of party or power; let them that 
have deservedly earned freedom, peace and happy 
prosperity in the land they, by their valor, saved and 
made gloriously prosperous, never cringe or fear to 
speak independently and dauntlessly their convictions 
and exercise their right of franchise accordingly, for 
God and country. 

"Only the truth that in life we have spoken, 
Only the seed that on earth we have sown; 
These shall pass onward when we are forgotten. 
Fruits of the harvest of what we have done." 

j^ The women of America are the most royal and 
noble on earth. To them we owe all that we are or 
may ever expect to be. The part they so courageously 
and valiantly bore in the Revolution, in taking the 
men's part in the successful conduct of affairs at home 
while their men were in the field victoriously contest- 
ing for freedom, home and country, is too well 
known to all readers of history for me to incidentally 
relate. But the conduct of Irish Molly Moylan at the 
battle of Monmouth, June 2, 1778, who, after her 
husband was killed at the cannon's mouth, took her 

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husband's place and kept up the firing over the dead 
body of her husband, until victory was gained, firing 
the last shot in that engagement, and who was com- 
missioned Sergeant by Gen. Washington for her gal- 
lantry in line of battle, is, illustrative of the women of 
the Revolution. In all the movements for the defense 
of this Nation and the integrity of the Union, they 
gave their full share of inspiring devotion. To them 
is due the greatest credit for loyally keeping alive the 
great reserve power at home. Their organized aid 
societies of every description, kept vigorously active 
by the thrilling spirit of sacrificial patriotism, inspired 
us most to duty, and to victory or death in camp and 
battlefield. They took our part at home, endured all 
losses and suffering with fortitude and devotional 
love, never halting, never wanting. 

Who or what more inspired us all than Julia 
Ward Howe by her " Battle Hymn of the Republic." 
The heroic mothers, wives, daughters and sisters, 
together with the loyal women of America, were our 
' ' Joan of Arc' ' during the darkest hours of this 
Republic, and are to us the most regal Queens, 
entitled to the rarest jeweled crowns of the most 
precious diadems that ever filigreed the head of 
woman. They were and are to us, and should 
be to every faithful American, the choicest and 
most sacred blessing to man. \ 

"The maid who binds her warrior's sash, 

With smile that well her pain dissembles, 
The while beneath her drooping lash 

One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles, 
Though Heaven alone records the tear, 

And fame shall never know her story, 
Her heart has shed a drop as dear 

As e'er bedewed the field of glory! 

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"The wife who girds her husband's sword, 

'Mid little ones who weep or wonder, 
And bravely speaks the cheering word, 

What though her heart be rent asunder, 
Doomed nightly in her sleep to hear 

The bolts of death around her rattle. 
Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er 

Was poured upon the field of battle ! 

•'The mother who conceals her grief 

While to her breast her son she presses, 
Then breathes a few brave words and brief. 

Kissing the patriot brow she blesses, 
With no one but her secret God 

To know the pain that weighs upon her, 
Sheds holy blood as e'er the sod 

Received on Freedom's field of honor!" 



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